Abstract
ABSTRACT The City Park Lake and the University Lakes complex have long been a source of pride to the citizens of Baton Rouge. This five-lake system comprises 300 acres. Over the past 50 years all aspects of the lakes have deteriorated with massive fishkills occurring on a regular basis during the warm summer months. In 1977 the City–Parish Government of East Baton Rouge asked the Institute for Environmental Studies at Louisiana State University to draft an Environmental Impact Statement and a Section 314 grant application to the Environmental Protection Agency to correct the hypereutrophic conditions in the five lakes. Then followed 2 years of negotiations gaining public support for the dredging project and obtaining areas for dredge spoil deposition. In September 1980 the project went out for bidding to the contractors, but because of the distance the spoil had to be pumped, bids far exceeded the $3 million available for the project. After several new dredging plans were presented, a large majority of pe...
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